Chimney-cleaning device



Feb. 1,1927.

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CHIMNEY CLEAN ING DEVICE Filed Sept. 12, 1925 a a a a WW 15 @E) 4 P x 1 W 2 3 j 3 11 12 :I I: *10 Y I J2 I f Q If Patented Feb. 1, 1927. I

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GRANT C. ODELL, OF HARVARD, ILLINGIS. I

CHIMNEY-CLEANING DEVICE.

Application filed September This invention relates to improvements in chimney cleaning devices, the general object being the mounting of a fan with respect to a stove pipe for blowing soot and extraneous matter collected therein out through the chimney so as to prevent spontaneous combustion which may result in the collection of such matter within the pipe and chimney.

Another object of my invention resides in the peculiar and novel construction of my invention per se in the provision of a removable pipe section having a fan and its chamber connected therewith in order that the said pipe section may be readily and easily substituted for the usual pipe section arranged in a chain of stove pipe sections forming a pipe or flue connecting a stove or furnace with its chimney with little difficulty.

A further object of my invention is the provision of means for suspending the fan and its pipe section from rafters and the like so that the pipe section can be arranged in communication with other pipe sections in forming the flue pipe for a heater.

lVith the above and other objects in View, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described,

illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is an elevation of a furnace showing my present invention applied to the flue therefor.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken through the fan and pipe and illustrating the supporting means therefor.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing in detail, wherein like characters of reference denote corre sponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a furnace having a plurality of flue pipes 11 connecting the same with a chimney 12, which together with the furnace and pipe 11 are of the usual and well known construction and form no part of the present application for Letters Patent but is merely shown for purposes of illustrating the application of my device.

The invention resides in the provision of a fan chamber 13 having a tubular outlet portion 14 in communication therewith and terminating at its lower side and said tubular outlet portion is formed integral with a 12, 1925. Serial N0 '56,03O.

removable cylindrical pipe section 15 which extends upon opposite sides thereof. A deflecting or baffie' plate 16 forms the inner wall of the tubular outlet portion'l f and extends an appreciable distance within the pipe section 15 as best shown in Figure 8 of the drawings.

Journaled within the fan casing 13 is a rotary shaft 17 having a plurality of fan blades 18 fixed thereto and a plurality of openings 19 are provided around the journaled ends of the rotary shaft 17 for the admission of air to be used by the fan blades 18. Supporting arms 20 are secured to the outer sides of the fan chamber 13 and have their upper ends secured to a supporting means 21 fixed to the rafters of a house as best shown in Figure 1 of the drawings. An electric motor 22 is also fixed to and suspended from the means 21, and is adapted to o-perate the fan which has fixed to its shaft 16 a grooved pulley wheel 23 from a pulley secured to the motor shaft.

In the mode of operation of the present invention it is clearly apparent and manifest from the foregoing description and accompanying drawing and it will be obvious that when the rotary shaft 17 and blades 18 fixed thereto are set in motion by the power imparted by the electric motor through the instrumentality of the belt 24, that air will travel through the tubular portion 14 of the fan casing 13 into the removable pipe section 15 which may form a permanent part of the pipe provided by the pipe sections 11 or be substituted for one of the pipes 11 and owing to the relative position and arrangement of the baflle or deflecting plate 16 which extends in a forwardly direction the air forced through the tubular member 14; will be forced forwardly through the remaining pipes 11 and in the chimney 12 to remove soot and other extraneous matter collected in the pipes 11 and the chimney 12. The air will churn up all the soot and other'extra neous matter and cause the same to travel upwardly through the chimney 12 and pass outwardly therefrom.

It will thus be noted from the foregoing description and accompanying drawing that this invention provides an exceedingly useful and advantageous cleaning device for use upon flue pipes chimneys and the like and which owing to the construction thereof may be readily and easily applied with little difficulty and be sold at a very nominal cost.

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The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction, and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall Within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described my invention what is claimed is In a chimney cleaning device, a fan chamher having a tubular outlet portion formed integral therewith, a rotary shaft jo-urnaled Within the fan chamberand surrounded by a plurality of openings provided adjacent the journaled end portions of sald shaft, a

drical flue pipe section and forming a baflle plate, and supporting arms connected with the fan chamber and adapted to suspend the same together With the flue pipe section for connection With pipe sections of a fine pipe.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GRANT C. ODELL. 

